Boris Becker

Every time you are not practicing someone else is.

The only thing I had on my mind was tennis, and sometimes girls,… My life was all about tennis. My office was the whole world. The word home didn’t really exist.

I lost in the second round of the French Open and had 10 days off. I went to the Hard Rock Cafe. It was exciting to be away from my parents, to stay in a hotel. Hotels at 17 meant freedom.

I believe that everything in life happens for a reason.

I can’t change history, I don’t want to change history. I can only change the future. I’m working on that.

Andre Sa is playing close to his potential – maybe even above it.

And now my neck is open wide, begging for a fist around it. Already choking on my pride, so there’s no use crying about it.

Doctoring her seemed to her as absurd as putting together the pieces of a broken vase. Her heart was broken. Why would they try to cure her with pills and powders?

Love is the will to extend one’s self for the purpose of nurturing one’s own or another’s spiritual growth.

Once you have drunk from the water of unconditional love, no other well can satisfy your thirst. The pangs of separation may become so intense that seeking the affection of the Beloved becomes an obsession.

Relish love in your old age! Aged love is like aged wine; it becomes more satisfying, more refreshing, more valuable, more appreciated and more intoxicating!

It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.

I have imprinted on you and all those miles between us only keep us apart because we let them.

I won’t take anyone down if I crawl tonight. But I still let everyone down when I change in size.

You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation… and that is called loving. Well then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is only your aversion to it that hurts, nothing else.

Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.

I never thought love could be so deep, so wide, so open, so full, so elevating! Such a teacher! Thank you for teaching me, growing me, deepening me!!

It occurred to me that love, simply stated, is replacing the need to always be right with the need to be understanding.

I’ve forever wanted a woman who loves like a soldier and fights like a poet. Always with unfailing faithfulness, always for the yearning in her heart.

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

When you fall in love, you wanna share it with people but you know there are some things that you need to keep to yourself, ’cause privacy makes things last longer, I feel.